Week of September 19th!

Hi Families!


It's been a great week shared with your sweet kiddos!  We had a lot of fun today on our field trip!  The children learned a variety of things from "how to make butter" to "how to wash clothes in a washtub"!  We are very excited about our Turkey Creek School field trip coming up on October 5th.. Hopefully your child got the note home about it. The admission is $3 due the last week of September.  If your child wants a special class picture, the cost is $7.  We will be touring the museum and there will be a gift shop available if the children want to bring some spending money.  A note was also sent home this week about 2 special days coming up......O.R.E.O. Project Day and Apple Day.  The O.R.E.O. Project Day is this coming Thursday, September 22nd. We will be conducting our experiment shortly after 11:00.  Thanks so much to those that signed up to donate a bag of Oreos! I greatly appreciate it!  Our Apple Day will be on September 30th.  Thanks to those that signed up to help with it as well!  I could still use a couple more volunteers for that day if you can. :) 


Here is the agenda for this week:


Reading  - We will start our guided reading groups this week.  I will be meeting with 4 groups separately.  Each group will begin a new novel.  I also sent home a homework assignment on Wednesday that is due on September 29th.  It involves building a house for Ralph.....the character out of The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Ask your child for the note about it if you haven't seen it. :)


Spelling - Sounds of "e" List 4 on spellingcity.com  The enriched list are the "h" enrichment words.


English - We will finish our animal reports this week.


Math - Rounding, money and decimals, making change, probelm solving


Social Studies - We will begin learning about the earliest people of Oklahoma, the Trail of Tears, the Indian Removal Act, and cattle drives.   We will also paint our dough maps!  The children did a great job on them!


Science - We will finish up our habitat posters.  The children are so imaginative and the posters all look so exceptional! Such a creative group I have!!  We will also begin our geology unit this week.  We will be creating a rock museum soon, so if you have any rocks to temporarily share with us, that would be terrific! 

Art - We will have a guest this week giving us a special art lesson! It should be fun!

Quote: Your friend is the one who knows all about you, and still likes you. Anonymous


We reached our class goal of a $275 book order!! Yippee!  That means more learning materials for our class!  Thanks to all who ordered!  There is still time if you want to order.  The book orders are due on Tuesday.